I have a soft spot for Emoji's because of their expressive potential. There entire undiscovered country hidden behind these symbols - waiting to be explored. In these uptight times - ideographic symbols are rarily used for creative purposes and that is a great shame. Emojis and Emoticons can tell a story like anything else. Even more - they are capable of creating narratives impossible otherwise. Imagine Warhol Screen Tests or "Ten minutes older" short - this kind of narrative. It might be overly verbose otherwise. But in Emojis it will be just right.
Emoji Aquarium is a Twitterbot that shows random generated tweets made completely of Fish-related Emojis. It was launched in February 2017. EmojiAquarium was designed by Joe Sondow. Every couple of hours bot tweet a combination of various fish and aquarium related emojis. And nothing else. No comment, no significant intent. Every tweet is just another idyllic scene from an imaginary aquarium. It is soothing and relaxing. Especially if you tend to follow the news on Twitter.
As it is EmojiAquarium is piece of generative ambient conceptual art. It is self-multiplying and completely devoid of mandatory "making sense". Scarce placement of the fishes inside the tweet reference to concrete poetry. Part of its charm lies in the fact that Twitter isn't really used for things like that. Sure, there are a lot of bots who post curious stuff. But they all pursue something - whether it is variations on the poem or gruesome medieval deaths. Emoji Aquarium does nothing. It is what it is. Cue Monty Python's Meaning of Life fish tank greek chorus.
There's also another Twitterbot by Joe Sondow that pursues similar goal - Emoji Meadow. Instead of fishes it shows some grass and flowers. Instead strategic placement of the symbols it does the opposite by covering the entire space of the tweet with symbols. Majority of it is "grass" which is mixed with various "flowers" and other "things". It is much closer to ASCII encoding of images.
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